Monthly Archives: March 2012

New seminar and workshop dates: the list so far…

Many of you will have heard the often used analogy of a swan moving across a lake.    Serene on the surface, there is still an awful lot of splashing around going on underneath the waterline to keep moving in the right … Continue reading

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Auto Enrolment Earnings Thresholds

A Government response to the consultation on the earnings thresholds for Auto-Enrolment was issued this week. These thresholds are very important, as they will partially dicate which employees (or workers as we will all need to think of them for Auto-Enrolment … Continue reading

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Income Protection/ Delegate voting at our last event

This week we issued a press release based on the results of our delegate voting at out London event in February.  Already this research has featured on several websites/ magazines, so I thought followers of the blog might be interested in viewing … Continue reading

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The Budget – Closing a ‘loophole’

This budget, like all others, has been used as an opportunity to bring clarity to a few areas of ambiguity. One such idea that has been kicking around for a few months in the industry (and heavily promoted by at … Continue reading

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The Budget – Healthcare

At first glance, the budget does not appear to have created too many waves in the Healthcare sector.  Mr Osborne did however mention the passing of the Welfare Reform Act. Doug Rice, Director of Healthcare at Jelf Employee Benefits has commented: … Continue reading

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The Budget – State Pensions

Although the focus of this blog is largely on company funded employee benefits, it’s impossible to look at these benefits in isolation.  Many benefits rely on some level of underpinning from the state benefit system, and are often designed to dovetail with such offerings. A … Continue reading

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The Budget – Pensions and Tax Relief

Many followers of this blog will have just finished listening to George Osborne’s budget speech. Experience suggests that much of the important detail will only become available and fully understood in the days and week following the speech, so it would be … Continue reading

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The need for an EAP?

I was leafing through the pages of the Sickness Absence Review today (as you do), when I stumbled across a couple of items that I had underlined when I first read the report, but which I had yet to expand … Continue reading

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Proposed NEST changes: But is it fair?…

Auto-Enrolment (AE) regulations finally take hold in just over 4 months time, yet the goalposts for the exercise are constantly being moved. Actually, moved is an understatement.  The goalposts seem to have wheels attached, and it’s virtually impossible to see where they will halt … Continue reading

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Higher-rate tax relief to go: Fact or Fiction?

There has been a lot of speculation over the last month re the possible abolition of Higher Rate Tax Relief on pension contributions. This is a subject that has been kicking around for a little while now, but the current spate … Continue reading

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